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... sound by me . Young Jamie loo'd me weel , and socht me for his bride- But saving a croun , he had naething else beside ; To mak ' that croun a pund young Jamie gaed to sea , And the croun and the pund were baith for me . He hadna been ...
... sound by me . Young Jamie loo'd me weel , and socht me for his bride- But saving a croun , he had naething else beside ; To mak ' that croun a pund young Jamie gaed to sea , And the croun and the pund were baith for me . He hadna been ...
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... sound of evil omen ; and before him lay three mortal miles , beset with a thousand imaginary perils . Obedient to the whip and spur , the steed leaped forward by fits and starts , now dashing away with a tremendous gallop , and now ...
... sound of evil omen ; and before him lay three mortal miles , beset with a thousand imaginary perils . Obedient to the whip and spur , the steed leaped forward by fits and starts , now dashing away with a tremendous gallop , and now ...
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... sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven 5 petual club of the sages , philosophers , and other. DESCRIPTION OF A MOONLIGHT NIGHT.
... sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony . Sit , Jessica : look , how the floor of heaven 5 petual club of the sages , philosophers , and other. DESCRIPTION OF A MOONLIGHT NIGHT.
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... sound of their balls , like distant peals of thunder . Rip's Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; ho soon found many of his former cronies , though all rather worse for the wear and tear of time , and preferred making friends ...
... sound of their balls , like distant peals of thunder . Rip's Rip now resumed his old walks and habits ; ho soon found many of his former cronies , though all rather worse for the wear and tear of time , and preferred making friends ...
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... sound as it will - was John Hewet ; of the other , Sarah Drew . John was a well - set man , about five - and - twenty ; Sarah , a brown woman of eighteen . John had for several months borne the labour of the day in the same field with ...
... sound as it will - was John Hewet ; of the other , Sarah Drew . John was a well - set man , about five - and - twenty ; Sarah , a brown woman of eighteen . John had for several months borne the labour of the day in the same field with ...
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Page 162 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs, were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 29 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die ! that she The common fate of all things rare May read...
Page 161 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 230 - GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 66 - Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow ! Christ save us all from a death like this On the reef of Norman's Woe ! THE LUCK OF EDENHALL.
Page 345 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 345 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
Page 162 - Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 187 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone ! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity,...
Page 37 - It was with some difficulty that he found the way to his own house, which he approached with silent awe, expecting every moment to hear the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. He found the house gone to decay — the roof fallen in, the windows shattered, and the doors off the hinges. A half-starved dog that looked like Wolf was skulking about it.